Pondicherry - The Foliage Tour

Don't Miss This Ride!!!

This will be one of the best rides of the year! Pondicherry is unbelievably beautiful and the foliage above the notches is great! This is the ride we wait for all year.

We’ll start at the western terminus of The Presidential Range Rail Trail and pedal through almost four miles of The Pondicherry National Wildlife Refuge where the views are absolutely magnificent. Then we’ll head for more open vistas on three miles of paved country road and another three plus miles on the dirt Valley Road. When we reach Jefferson Notch Road we will return to Pondicherry on The Rail Trail. In all we’ll cover about 18 miles with breath taking fall foliage views.

The rail trail has a pretty firm surface and is a combination of dirt, gravel, stone, cinder and ballast. Since the new culverts were installed late last fall the rail trail has been solid and dry. This is a relatively flat route with no major hills.

Bring your cameras, the scenery here creates magazine quality photos!!!

The drive to and through Crawford Notch is just stunning right now. So take route 302 through Bretton Woods and at the traffic light go right on route 3 for 1.9 miles. Then take another right on route 115. In 4.4 miles Hazen Road will be on your left, take it. In another 1.4 miles you will see a sign on the right saying Presidential Recreation Trail Pondicherry. Go right into the small parking lot. We may have to do some creative parking to fit us all in here.

Carpooling is a must due to the small parking lot at Pondicherry. Meet at 8:55am in the Attitash parking lot. Please be ready to ride at 10:00am

Click here for the route map
http://www.mapmyride.com/route/us/nh/jefferson/246125466746595495

If the weather forecast deteriorates check back here Monday night or Tuesday morning.